Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-13
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS,
DIVA

Dan 0'Leary f. doing the heel and toe act
In Sioux City.
At Manning 400 worth of beer and whisky
was seized.
There were ~ffty-one deaths IL Burlington
dutiug July.
Horse thieves are numerous in the vicinity
of Muse ltiue.
The free postal delivery system has been
ordered for Oskalsosa.
Burglars are doing work very unpleasant to
he citizens of Ple~ssantvilie.
The house OF Z. 3. Page, Of BADGER, was to-
.aliy destroyed by lightning Friday.
Cherokee is looking for u Irvine factory and
Dunlap has voted for water works.
Charles Sage, OF Tama, couldn't stand dis
appointment IN love and committed suicide.
At Seney al elevator was struck BY light
ming and three men injured, one probably
fatally.
Henry Benn,rger has also been arrested for
completely In the Stone City post oSice rob.
berry.
The walls of the new court house in Daven-
port are settling, and dangerous cracGs have
appeared.
Sophia Kelohner, OF Cone, suicided by
drowning In Cone lake. Ii health is assigned
as the reason.
Henry belmont, OF Davenport, was run over
by the cars and shockingiy mangled. HIS
condition is critical.
Monte yuma Is confident that coal exists IN
that region. A stock company has been or.
ganized TO prospect for 1t.
In Mills county a negro and a white woman
applied Ia ;he clerk for a marriage license,
but he said no With emphasis.
Hon. s p Bryant will represent the Davtn-
port Associated charities at TIE national con-
ference in 0mahs this month.
The Palo Alto county Republican conven.
t!on instructed It's delegates 20 vote for none
farmers for the legislature.
Most all OF the republican county conven-
now being held are formally indorsing
Governor Larrshee's administration
An Advent minister at Council Bluffs Sun
day %arrsigned Spiritualism ana Christian
science as the work OF the devil. He said
there were 5,00O,00 spiritualiets In the United
Safes.
Council Bluffs is mad because Mrs. Langtry
as "G alatea" In a Mother Hubbard,
when the thermometer was 1913. Theater
Christianity.
According to the signal service Office record
at Des Hoines, Friday was the hottest day Of
the season, and the third hottest IN nine
years, being surpasso.t only By July 6, 1ss6,
ard August II, 1881.
Since recovering Somewhat Ida Wycof, OF
p9uHcl tufts, denies that she was drugged
aud outraged. She speaks well OF Griffin,
who is now In j II charged by Miss Wycof's
sister with that crime.
The state board Of health has received I'm.
formation from New Hampton that the rivers
throughout that country are extremely shal.
low and as q result diphtherla and cholera are
almost sure to prevail.
The Mississippi Valley Spiritualist associa-
tios ia holding a camp-meetipg In their park
Nj. Pleasant-just west o. Clinton. Among
the striking subjects TO be discussed the pro-
gram ~nounc this: "Why Don't Goo XIII
TIE Devil,r
poweiltown reports two suicides IN one
week, that of Mrs. Henry Won Beck because
OF domestic troubles, 1t is supposed, and the
other, Henry Ropner. caused by grief, In
duced by losing six children d few years ago
by diphtheria.
Bennington, twelve miles east Of Winterset,
has Just dcdic 1t, d It's first church, though ff-
teen years old and in tne mi ist of a fue agri
cultural region. Until recently it had i've ga
looms. Now they are gone, comes a beautiful
church as an ornament to the town.
Monoua c%ounty's assessed valuation Is as
follows: Lands and town lots, e., 1921:
personal property, s6S2 102; railroads, 1887,
$40. The total valuation OF the state is:
Lands and tow lots, $500, 9S3 300; personal
ity, sl01, CO 1913; railroads, t3S, i21 T6l.
During q storm Saturday morning Van
Winkel's cooperative coal mine, south OF
Des Moineq, was struck by lightning. Before
Ii was discovered the fire was beyond %contro!,
and burned down the shaft and is now in
the mine. The fire department was power.
less.
Charley MeDkler, from Worthlngtou,
MIMI, who Is charged with having enticed a
Young, c 1nfdlng and motherl,ss girl Of four.
teen away from Omaha, was Tuesday at
Spirit i Ike bound over in the sum Of 500 TO
appear before the district court to answer
the charge Of ] wdness.
A young lady NJ Knoxville was injured
lawn party By a limo Of a tree striking her on
the head, so that she Is now unconscious, and
her friends are much alarmed. The accident
was caused by several groups amusing them
selves In breaking down hammocks In which
others were swinging.
A New Hampton special says j. II. Powers,
the prohibition attorney, was arrested Tues
day on the charge Of forgery, and gave bonds
In the sum Of 81, COO for his appearance at the
next term OF court. His crime consisted In
sending legal notices TO saloonkeepers in the
name of a justice OF the peace.
While Aaron Hadfe.d Of Burr Oak, was
cutting and binding timotf with q harvester
one Of the shafts wound with hay, which ig-
nited from the friction and started a fire
which consumed the entire piece Of timothy,
and spreading to an Adjoining field burned
eighty acres of meadow land.
The Iowa State lockers aud Manufacture
ers' association is making a careful compiia-
ton OF the discrimination and overcharges
a.sirs ST Iowa jobbers, ard will lay the matter